Astro has excellent built-in support for Markdown, making it a great choice for blogs.

Formatting Basics

You can use all standard Markdown syntax:

  • Bold text and italic text
  • Links
  • Inline code and code blocks

Code Blocks

Astro supports syntax-highlighted code blocks out of the box:

const greeting = "Hello, Astro!";
console.log(greeting);

Lists

  1. First item
  2. Second item
  3. Third item

Blockquotes

Astro is designed for building content-rich websites. This includes most marketing sites, publishing sites, documentation sites, blogs, portfolios, and some ecommerce sites.

That’s all you need to get started writing posts!